yaml – Uses a specific YAML file as an inventory source.

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• YAML based inventory, starts with the ‘all’ group and has hosts/vars/children entries.
• Host entries can have sub-entries defined, which will be treated as variables.
• Vars entries are normal group vars.
• Children are ‘child groups’, which can also have their own vars/hosts/children and so on.
• File MUST have a valid extension, defined in configuration

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
yaml_extensions list	Default: [".yaml", ".yml", ".json"]	ini entries: [defaults] yaml_valid_extensions = ['.yaml', '.yml', '.json'] [inventory_plugin_yaml] yaml_valid_extensions = ['.yaml', '.yml', '.json'] env:ANSIBLE_YAML_FILENAME_EXT env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_PLUGIN_EXTS	list of 'valid' extensions for files containing YAML

Notes

Note

• It takes the place of the previously hardcoded YAML inventory.
• To function it requires being whitelisted in configuration.

Examples

all: # keys must be unique, i.e. only one 'hosts' per group
    hosts:
        test1:
        test2:
            var1: value1
    vars:
        group_var1: value2
    children:   # key order does not matter, indentation does
        other_group:
            children:
                group_x:
                    hosts:
                        test5
            vars:
                g2_var2: value3
            hosts:
                test4:
                    ansible_host: 127.0.0.1
        last_group:
            hosts:
                test1 # same host as above, additional group membership
            vars:
                last_var: MYVALUE

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